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FOREST AND STREAM, 
[Nov. I, 1902. 
An Early Day Way. 
Keller, Wash., Oct. 16. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
A few das ago, in company with a Virginian, I was going 
tc Wilbur for some supplies for the mines, and after 
crossing the Columbia River, and getting up near Mr. 
Campbell's orchard, I noticed a flock of birds running 
along in a trail in the grass on the inside of the. fence. At 
first I thought it was several larks, but they ran so 
smoothly along, that I looked more closely, and when 
they came out in plain view, I saw they were quail — regu- 
lar old Bob Whites. And I cannot recall at any time the 
sight of any kind of game that gave me the same amount 
of pleasure that the sight of this little bunch of birds 
gave. There were twelve— eight Bob Whites and four 
little Biddies. They -were the first live quail I had seen 
for forty-two years this summer. And they brought 
back to my memory many pleasant thoughts. I was so 
much pleased at seeing them, my friend asked how many 
years since it had been I had seen any, and when I told 
him forty-two, he looked incredulous. But when I ex- 
plained to him that it had been as long as that since I 
had left the Missouri River at Atchison, Kan., he re- 
marked that it was a long time. 
After rummaging through my storehouse of memory, I 
unearthed a leaf that had indelibly stamped on it of the 
first live quail I ever saw. It was the» winter I was seven 
years old. That winter father moved from the town of 
Platteville, Wis., to his mill on the Little Platte, and our 
nearest neighbors, Bowmans, had two boys about the 
size of my brother and I. t)ick, my brother, was two 
years older than I, and was much stouter. Harm. Bow- 
man was the size of Dick, and Ben was a little bigger 
than I, but they having been raised in the country, were 
much better versed in trapping and hunting than we town 
boys. 
Shortly after we moved to the mill we went up and 
stayed^ all night with the Bovmian boys, and we had a 
jolly time. The next morning early we Avent to the straw 
stack, where the boys had a couple Of traps set for quail. 
Well, when we got in sight of them, they were down, and 
there was a race to see who could get there first. I tell 
you we were not long in surrounding one of the traps; 
Harm, loosened a wedge and moved a top board and put 
his hand in, and soon drew out a quail. He wrung its 
neck and threw it down, then he again ptxt his hand in 
and drew forth another ; this one he handed to Dick, who 
took it and instead of taking it hy the neck and wringing 
its neck till it wa;S broken, he took it by the feet, and 
after giving it several turns quickly threw it down, or 
tried to, when there was a whir-r-r, and away went a 
quail. Mr. Editor, if a picture of that group of boys could 
have been taken then, it would have been worth copy- 
righting, to see the sorrow on my face, the disappoint- 
ment on Dick's and the disgust on the faces of the Bow- 
man boys. As soon as Harm, could speak, he wanted to 
know what Dick had done, and when Dick told them 
that he took the bird by the feet and gave it several 
turns, then threw it down, there was an explosion of 
wrath and a statement that he would not get the chance 
to let another bird get away. So the rest of the execu- 
tions were performed by the Bowman boj-^s, which was 
a severe blow to our pride. I do not remember just how 
many birds we got, but there were quite a lot, and when 
we got to the house and Harm, told his father and 
mother, and they had a heartj^ laugh over it, to our dis- 
comfiture, and as soon as we could get away after break- 
fast, we started for home, and when we told father, he 
laughed more than we thought the case required. 
We brought home some figure fours, and set some traps 
of our own, and it was not long before we had birds to 
wring, and we knew how to wring them. But these little 
fellows I saw here were safe, for the days of wringing 
birds' necks has long since been passed by. 
a;* ::.(,,;. Lew Wilmot. 
Enforcing the Game Laws in 
Massachusetts. 
Boston, Oct. 22. — Editor Forest mid Stream: It would- 
appear that some strenuous work in the enforcement of 
game laws in the old Bay State may be expected this 
autumn, if one may judge by what has already been ac- 
complished. Without attempting to go into details, it 
may interest the readers of Fore.st and Stream to men- 
tion a few instances which will indicate the forcefulness 
of the work that is being carried on and wllich is now 
apparently at full swing. 
One of the neatest bits of detective work accomplished 
was performed just before the opening of the hunting 
season. Complaint of probable snaring at Middleton was 
received by the Fish and Game Commission, and Deputy 
Thomas L. Burney, of Lynn, was detailed to investigate 
the matter. He soon located tlie snares and reported the 
fact at headquartei-s. Immediately telegrams were sent 
to Deputies Nixon at Gloucester, Luman at Palmer and 
Shea at Ware to co-operate with Burnej^ This was 
Friday morning. That evening the four officers were at 
Middleton. Saturday morning they were out at 2 o'clock, 
and after a hasty lunch were off for the location of the 
snares at 2:30 A. M. It was a raw morning, with the 
chill of a coming storm in the air, and lying still in the 
brush hour after hour under such circumstances was any- 
thing but comfortable; it certainly needed the spur of 
official zeal and devotion to duty to make the conditions 
endurable. 
Dividing into two parties, two men in each group, the 
deputies concealed themselves at some little distance apart 
along the line of snares, so they would be sure to inter- 
cept any one M^ho might come to attend the devices, from 
whichever direction he might arrive. The hours dragged 
wearily; the chill fall winds soughed through the covers, 
and aching and stiffened muscles made it exceedingly try- 
ing to remain motionless. But their patience and endur- 
ance were finally rewarded. 
About 9 o'clock Benjamin F- Gould, reputed to be an 
old oflFender, came into view, and began to examine the 
scares and to reset those which had been sprung. As he 
arose from setting a snare, he was astounded to see Bur- 
ney and Luman, who had quietly approached while his at- 
tention was temporarily diverted. He was taken com- 
pletely by surprise^ as was evidenced by bis ejactjla- 
tions. When, however, he was told he was under arrest, 
he broke and ran, but was soon brought up all standing — 
or rather all in a tumble, for he was unceremoniously 
caught and thrown to the ground. 
Two snared partridges were found on Gould, and con- 
sidering he was not only snaring, but was prosecuting his 
nefarious work out of the hunting season, all interested in 
the protection of game hoped he would get the full penalty 
of the law. Much disappointment was felt, therefore, 
when the judge fined him only $20 instead of $63, which 
many felt he deserved, especially as this penalty was 
fixed by law. Nevertheless, the effect of this arrest and 
conviction was excellent in the locality, and it is doubtful 
if any other would-be pot-hunter in that section of the 
State will take the risk of engaging in snaring this fall. 
As soon as Gould was safely landed in Middleton and 
placed in charge of the local police, the deputies "took to 
the woods" again, chiefly for the purpose of gathering 
the snares as material for evidence at the trial. Mean- 
while the storm had begun, and rain fell steadily, driving 
into the faces of the game wardens and soon drenching 
them to the skin. But they were not swerved from their 
purpose, and after miles of tramping over the soggy rain- 
filled ground and through dripping underbrush, they re- 
turned to the hotel at Middleton. They were soaking 
wet, it is true, tired beyond question, and faint from 
hunger (for tliey ate nothing from their early morning 
lunch until 4:30 P. M.), but they had the pride and satis- 
faction of having done their full duty, regardless of ad- 
verse circumstances, and of having "the stuff for evi- 
dence" to take before the court next day. 
Mention should not be omitted of the fact that Mr. J. 
Russell Reed, the widely known President of the Massa- 
chusetts Fish and Game Protective Association, volun- 
teered to prosecute this case, thereby evidencing his pub- 
lic spirit and interest in the . protection of game. But 
Gould plead guilty, and no active prosecution was neces- 
sary, 
The Fish and Game Commissioners have been doing 
some very vigorotis work recently. Twelve arrests for 
Sunday hunting were made on Oct. 19; another for hav- 
ing short lobsters in possession the next day, and T learn 
that another snarer has been caught red-handed this 
m.orning, with a partridge on him, and is now in the lock- 
up at New Bedford awaiting trial to-morrow. Except for 
the fact -that the first two Sundays since the hunting 
season opened were stormy, it is probable many other Sun- 
day hunters would have felt the pinch of the law. Even 
as it was, four transgressors were caught in one locality 
on Sunday, Oct. 12, and all were convicted and fined. 
Many Italians have been captured and convicted for 
shooting insectivorous birds, and the reprehensible prac- 
tice of shooting anything that flies, regardless of law, has 
received a decided check. Bay State. 
T End of Jerry. 
An Incident of the Nfght la the Shasta Mountains, Told 
by Ransacker in the Sactamento Bee. 
Jim W. differed from the Father of his Country in one 
especial attribute. Whereas, inasmuch as the latter could 
not tell a lie, it was equally impossible for Jim to tell 
anything else. He was thought to have been a native 
of Georgia, but it is only safe to say that he was a native 
of one of the Southern States. He made very improb- 
able estimates as to the wealth of liis parents and the 
number of negroes they owned, and would give descrip- 
tions of his early life and sun'oundings absurdly incom- 
patible. Claiming to have never known M'hat physical 
labor meant, he knew and practiced little else; pretend- 
ing to have been reared in luxury and refinement, in 
realit}'- he knew nothing of either; and alleging to have 
been possessed of every advantage in his young days, 
he could neither write his name nor spell the large 
words on a flour sack. Ignorance was his main fault, 
however, for in other respects he was trustworthy, and 
thoroughly reliable in everything except what he said. 
It was simply an impossibility for Jim to make a 
declaration, a plain statement, answer a question, or 
respond to a query on the square. When questioned re- 
garding apy subject, even if the answer implied was 
simply "yes" or "no," he would either give the adverse 
response, afiix a preamble or attach a sequel wherein he 
was sure to introduce a most astounding improbability 
or elaborate lie. Being fond of hunting, he spent a 
good portion of his time in the mountains with his rifle, 
and as slan.g expresses it, he could "talk a man's arm 
off" regarding his exploits. His anecdotes were oddly 
characteristic of himself, and he made his most ponder- 
ous statements in a modest, apologizing, good-natured 
way. which held his hearers in silent suspense, as he pro- 
ceeded, and left them limp and stupefied when he ended. 
It would be impossible to successfully repeat any of his 
startling narratives, but I recall an instance in which 
Jim's exaggeration of facts led to a 'catastrophe that 
afflicted him very seriously. He lived alone in a log 
cabin in the hiUs (alone, excepting his dog and a very 
large cat that he called Jerry), and employed himself in 
mining a little in his almost exhausted placer diggings, 
and in hunting. Jerry was his most valued possession, 
excepting, perhaps, his gun. Jeny was the hero of 
many an astonishing anecdote, and Jim claimed that he 
was superior to any dog, either in scenting and actually 
"pointing" deer or in tracking a wounded one. It was 
really known that the big gray cat trotted along at his 
heels, following with the dog, when Jim went hunting. 
It transpired that Jim came, as was his custom occa- 
, sionally, to spend a few days at B. Ranch, some three 
miles from his home. He brought his dog and left Jerry 
the cat as he supposed to stay at home. We had four 
dogs at the ranch, and when Jim's dog came he enticed 
them into hunting at night, at which times they yelled 
up and down the creek, frequently .treeing coons, foxes, 
etc. When we knew them to be in easy distance we 
would take guns and go to kill whatever they might 
have treed. Jim talked a great deal of a panther he 
knew to be in the neighborhood, and one night he 
rushed in as we were about to retire, with the information 
that the dogs had the California lion. He had heard its 
cries and knew the dogs had him treed, finally claiming 
to have seen it himself. Though incredulous, Jackson 
^nd myself concluded to go; so, lighting a lantern, and 
loading the shotgun (somewhat), we set out, accom- 
panied by Jim. The night was very dark, and the dogs 
were baying down the creek at a point we knew to be in 
dense brush. The dogs barked very excitedly, and as 
we approached we heard howls from them, indicating 
that whatever, they had it was not to be trifled with. 
The tree was densely hung with wild grapevines, and the 
dogs were panting and snarling underneath. Occasion- 
ally, by the light of the lantern, a shadow would be seen 
to descend the tree, and immediately a dog would rush 
cut of the vines with a unearthly howl; then the ap- 
parent shadow would reascend, and the dog would charge 
back again, wilder still with rage. We began to think 
ir was the lion. Jim was sure it was, and he euthusias- 
tically cheered the dogs on, and instructed me to fire 
the next time the shadow appeared — to fire both barrels 
and shoot sure. Accordingly, seeing the leaves move, 
and the object apparently about to descend, I fired. I 
fired both barrels. We had intended to put large loads 
in the gun, and I rather think we did. I am under that 
impression. I accomplished a double-back somersatdt 
as the boys do in the circus, and then I thought I fell to 
pieces. Under the excitement, I reassembled myself 
somehow, and rushed forward to see how matters stood 
at the front. Well, after the explosion there was heard 
a "dull thud" — so Jackson said (intimating that he meant 
nothing personal), and the dogs pounced upon the lion. 
Jackson held the lantern, and Jim hissed the dogs. The 
lion was evidently done for, and Jim was hilarious; so 
after letting the dogs "have him" for some time, and as- 
certaining that he was inanimate, he cautiously reached 
in, grasped the lion's tail, and carefully dragged it out 
of the vines, chuckling with delight. He lifted it by the 
tail, saying that it had a mighty long tail — held it in the 
light of the lantern, and then his visage paled, his coun- 
tenance fefl, the tail dropped from his unnerved hand, 
and he exclaimed: "It's Jerry, by criminy!" Sad to 
relate, it was the big gray cat Jerry, and riddled with 
buckshot, he was a hopeless case. Beyond any possibil- 
ity of a doubt Jerry was a dead cat. Even the dogs 
seemed ashamed of themselves; and Jim's dog in par- 
ticular slunk away and was invisible for two days. We 
marched home under an oppressive silence imtil Jim 
A-olunteered the expression that it was "too bad," and 
that he "might 'a' node it was Jerry; he was alwus ruff 
on dogs." Then he added, as his irrepressible mood re- 
vived. "But didn't he make the fur fly on them dogs, 
though! I've node him to lick morc'n a thousand dogs! 
Once when I was gwine" — but it was a long yarn. 
Maine Moose. 
Boston, Oct. 25. — Moose are coming into the Boston 
markets. The way is open, and nothing is done to stop 
the shipments. A man with a moose in charge comes 
right along with no other questions asked than, "Who 
claims the moose?" the usual interrogation at Bangor. At 
other stations no questions whatever are asked. On the 
train, or at the American Express office, the shipper sim- 
ply has to direct to what firm in the market the moose or 
deer shall be taken. The next day, or a day or two 
after, according to previous understanding, the man who 
brought the moose appears at the commission house and 
claims the pay for the animal. What could be easier? 
Is market-hunting to be carried on in such a fashion till 
all the b;g game in Maine is exhausted? Four moose I 
have already seen in the markets here. If one of them 
was not killed several days before the open sesaon — Oct. 
15 — then a bad state of decay is no indication. In this 
case the buyer of the moose threw up the bargain, when 
he found the state the venison was in, and wiU demand 
his money back from the commission house. In another 
case a man came through with a moose, claiming that he 
shot it himself. It cost a good deal to get him to the 
railway station. Then the express to Boston was not less 
than $2 per hundred pounds, the American Express Com- 
pany controlling the shipment of moose and deer, so that 
they cannot be sent as freight. The man was a good 
deal disappointed when he foiind that his moose was sold 
for ten cents per pound. It weighed a trifle over 400 
pounds, and did not pay well for bringing to Boston. One 
antler was a long forked horn, with a single prong. The 
other was fairly palmated. 
Messrs. W. T. Farley, P. R. Spaulding, O. C. Ward 
and T. S. Tellett are just out of the woods from a moose 
hunt. They gave a moose dinner at the Westminster 
Thursday evening to a few invited guests. , 
Boston, Oct. 27. — The big game record at Bangor 
is great; for the week, 630 deer and 45 moose. This is 
the biggest week on record at that point, and other sec- 
tions are showing up about as well. For the season the 
record is 1,192 deer and 45 moose; last year 1,076 deer 
and 46 moose; same time in 1890, 1,000 deer and 56 
moose. Boston sportsmen are coming home with good 
records ; at least we hear of the good records, but noth- 
ing of the failures. It is certain that the number of 
hunters who have been to Maine thus far is greater 
than ever. Word came from Enfield, Me.,- Saturday, 
from A. M. Darling, that A. L. Brett, of Boston, had 
left for home with a moose weighing 897 pounds, the 
first and largest from that section for the season. It took 
four days to get the monster out of the woods. R. W. 
Thain also had a large buck deer. John W. Connelly and 
P. W. Barber, of Newark, N. J., have taken out moose 
from the Rangeley region. They were shot somewhere 
above Eustis. Boston hunters who have brought home 
deer for the week from the Rangeley region are B. N. 
Kenney, Miss A. M. Davis, J. W. Long and Frank 
Vickery. W, M. Palmer, of Boston, and his sister Alta 
Palmer, and his brother George Palmer, who have been 
hunting in the Machias region, have had good success. 
The other morning Mr. Palmer started out from camp 
early and soon encountered a big bull moose. He fired 
upon him, but the moose charged upon the hunter, and 
it took another shot to stop him when he was alto- 
gether too near for safety. Commissioner L. T. Carle- 
ton reports that he found a case of illegal moose kill- 
ing at the camp of Dr. D. A. McLeod. It was a lum- 
ber clerk who confessed, and is to pay a fine of $500 
and costs. Mr. Carleton says that the law which per- 
mits of the killing and using of not more than two deer 
in a season at any one lumber camp is being grossly 
violated. Who ever kn?W of such a law being obeyed 
